1910: In Old California - When Tinsel Town was citrus groves: 100 years of Hollywood

The first movie ever shot in Hollywood, DW Griffith's silent film In Old
California was released on March 10 1910, exactly 105 years ago. It was a
melodrama about the Mexican era in California, and starred such early
celebrities as Marion Leonard and Henry B Walthall, who also appeared in
Griffith's later film, The Birth of a Nation. Griffith continued to make
films until 1931, and lived in Hollywood until his death in 1948, aged 73.